Bhubaneswar,Odisha, March 22,2013:
On the occasion of World Water Day KIIT Art Gallery ‘Kirtikalp’ has been inaugurated in KIIT campus in presence of Mr. Kabir Bedi, Eminent Film Personality and Mr. Shekhar Kapur, Eminent Film Director.
KIIT has taken the effort by creating such a national level Art Gallery to develop and to give wide information about the Art, culture and Sculpture of Odisha in India and abroad.
Inaugurating the Art Gallery Kabir Bedi, and Mr. Shekhar Kapur have expressed their satisfaction and praised the effort of Dr A. Samanta, founder KIIT & KISS and Mr. Adwaita Gadanayak, Director, School of Fine Art.
KIIT Art Gallery, Kirti-kalp is a huge gallery of nine thousand sqft. area, where all the art shown based on Odia art and culture. Basically these all are prepared on the basis of Jagannath culture. It would be opened for the general people informed Dr. A. Samanta, Founder, KIIT & KISS.
Earlier in a press meet on global issues on water and upcoming movie Paani, Sekhar kapur informed about the panic situation of water in India. With a great concept of scarcity of water in near future in India, he has made his film ‘Paani’. Giving the recent scenario about underground and other sources of water, he said only one part of the land area from which we are getting sweet water in different way. But it is going scarcity. City people consume water from rural source in different metro cities. When the water source in rural will become low, it will create a panic situation.
Giving importance on plantation, he said it is so necessary to create more and more plantations, as plantation can preserve the source of water. Pointing out the situation of Odisha, he said Odisha has the same situation, though it has a vast salt water resource.
Now people are not interested to use the community water sources. water consumption by independent sources like tube well and bore wells are bad tradition in India which may cause of earth quake unlike Gujrat. Later Mr. Kabir Bedi, Mr. Shekhar Kapur and Nilmadhv Panda, eminent Film director and producer gave their views on a Panel Discussion on “New Generation and Cinema of 21st Century” organized by KIIT School of Film and Media Sciences. They also inaugurated the Art Exhibition ‘BLUe’on socio-political-cultural aspect of water.
